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Title: The Photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
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Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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t/iE* O* CARING FOR THE WOUNDED FROM THE MISSISSIPPI TO THE POTOMAC In the upper photograph are soldiers convalescing at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from their wounds received on the Red River and PortHudson expeditions, and below is Smiths farm near Keedysville, Maryland, close to where the battle of Antietam was fought inSeptember, 1862. In the course of the days fierce firing nearly twenty-five thousand men were killed and wounded. It covered aperiod of about twelve hours; few entrenchments or fortifications of any kind were used by either side. Dr. Bernard, surgeon of theOne Hundred and Second New York, was made the chief of all the hospitals. One of the locations of his corps hospitals was onSmiths farm. In the background of the picture is a fine view of South Mountain. In the foreground the men are gathered about a fire.
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AFTER ANTIETAM—ARMY SURGEONS. HUTS. AND TENTS FOR THE WOUNDED been shattered, splintered, or split higher up than could beascertained at first. Conservative surgery was, I might say, al-most, if not entirely, a universal principle with the Confederatesurgeon; conservatism, first, as to the life of the wounded sol-dier, secondly, as to his future comfort and usefulness. Conical-ball wounds in the abdomen were nearly alwaysfatal, far more so than those produced by the round ball withlower velocity. The intestines, in the former case, were gen-erally perforated; in the latter, they often escaped this injuryby being pushed aside by the slower moving round ball firedfrom the smooth-bore gun. The reverse of this was the case inwounds of the chest, since the round ball bruised and lacerateda large area of lung tissue, while the more swiftly movingconical ball often produced a clean-cut wound. On December 25, 1864, my associates and myself, withthe wounded of Bates division, were all moved

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